1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



19 



years. 1 -was good once, but your love 

 has beeu a liboral edncatiou for me." 



Her whole bearing seemed altered. 

 The sweet sadue.«s of the mouth had 

 changed to mockery; her voice rang 

 clear and hard. Every word struck home 

 to his soul as nothing had ever done in 

 the cf'urse of his gay, successful life. 



"Then I have damned you and my- 

 self," he said hoarsely. 



"Don't lalk so primitively. We have 

 beeu educated out of all that now," she 

 answered. "There are hundreds of 

 husbands and wives in our own case." 



"But this man — Dacre" — he brought 

 out the words as if they burned his lips. 

 "You — yon au't love him?" 



She shiugged her shoulders carelessly. 



"Love? What does it mean? He wag 

 sufficiently amusing. Did you love 

 Lady Fanccurt, Miss Bellair and — but 

 why extend the list?" 



"I? That is quite another thing. A 

 man ' ' — But he stopped short under the 

 scorn of her eyes. 



"What will you do? You can't di- 

 vorce me. You could never appear in 

 court with such a record as yours," she 

 went on. "I don't see, myself, why this 

 should make any difference to us. We 

 know the truth about each other now 

 and can be nmtually complacent." 



Thevileness of such words on her lips 

 was unbearable to him. He sprang up 

 and caught her by both arms, studying 

 every line of her face with savage inten- 

 sity. 



"Are you going to kill me?" she said, 

 shrinking a little. "I did not take your 

 confessions so tragically. " 



"I can't believe it. I can't understand 

 it," he muttered. "You, who were 

 worlds above me, to have sunk so much 

 beneath me !" 



"I think we are on a level footing 

 now," she retorted. "Our sin is of the 

 same quality. ' ' 



"But I know myself for the black- 

 guard I am, and yt)u — oh, Lilian, don't 

 you realize what it is for you?" 



She shook her head slightly. A sud- 

 den hatred of him had sprung up in her, 

 and instinctively she knew that nothing 

 she could do or say would wring his 

 heart as did her callous bearing. 



He looked at her for an instant with 

 despairing eyes and then caught her to 

 him as if he would kiss her, but re- 



coiled, and, loosing her, dashed roughly 

 from the room. — St. Paul's. 



Seems to Be a Long: Lived Set. 



A list of the los.ses which the Royal 

 society has suffered by death during the 

 past year shows that the pursuit of sci- 

 ence is not unfavorable to longevity. 

 The list comprises 19 fellows and seven 

 foreign members, and the average life- 

 time of these 26 men was a fraction 

 over 761^ years. The average age of the 

 seven foreign members was 79 years and 

 5 mouths, the oldest being Franz Ernst 

 Neumann, 97, and the youngest Henri 

 Ernest Baillon, 67. The 19 fellows had 

 an average lifetime of 75 years and 7 

 months, the oldest being Bisset Haw- 

 kins, 98, and the youngest George Ed- 

 ward Dobsou, 47. The fellows were not 

 all scientific men, one of them being 

 Lord Aberdare, 80, and another, the 

 Earl of Selborne, 83, but statesmanship 

 and law also seem to favor length of 

 days. — London News. 



One Way to Tell Time. 



"What time is it?" I asked the jani- 

 tor of a down town ofiice building. 



The old fellow reached into his vest 

 pocket, pulled out a battered silver 

 watch, looked at it intently, and then 

 taking a pencil from another pocket jot- 

 ted sometiiing down on a bit of paper. 

 Next he reached into another pocket and 

 pulled out a second watch, the compan- 

 ion of the first, looked at it and again 

 jotted something down on a bit of paper. 

 Then he began a little computation on 

 his slip of paper, after which he an- 

 nounced : 



"At the time you a.sked, sub, it was 

 just 37 minutes past 3. That's exact." 



"Much obliged," I said. "But will 

 you kindly exi)laiu to me why you had 

 to look at two watches and go through 

 all that figuring before you could tell 

 me?" 



"Why, you see, sub," he replied, 

 "this here watch that I carries in my 

 test is a mighty good watch, but it loses 

 just ten minutes every day. This other 

 watch that I carries in my pants is just 

 as good, but it gains ten minutes every 

 day. So first I looks at one, and then I 

 looks at the other, and then I takes my 

 pencil and fignres out the average be- 

 tween the two. That way I gets the 

 time exact, suh. " — Buffalo Express. 



